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| Srinagar North SP escaped bid in life | | | |
Srinagar, June 22: The Superintendent of Police, Srinagar North, today escaped a militant bid on life whereas in another incident security forces foiled an infiltration attempt last night.
In other militancy related incident, ultras also carried out a grenade attack on a CRPF party, while bodies of four persons including two unidentified insurgents were recovered and two hideouts busted leading to the recovery of 35 kg of explosives in the state, a police spokesman said.
Superintendent of Police, North, Bashir Ahmad Khan escaped unhurt when unidentified militants hurled a grenade on his motorcade at Chattipadshahi in Srinagar this evening.
The grenade exploded on the roadside after missing the intended target without causing any casualty.
Khan, when contacted, said he was moving in his armoured vehicle when the ultras hurled the grenade.
The whole area was immediately cordoned off and a hunt has been launched to nab the militants responsible for the attack.
The spokesman said militants hurled a grenade towards a CRPF patrolling party at Hanjiveera-Palhallan in Pattan, 2... | |
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| Mantri teaches top Babus lesson | | Haji Nisar fires salvo on senior officers for not attending DDB meeting | | |
Jammu, June 22: Those who thought that the Minister for Social Welfare Haji Nisar Ali can be taken for a ride for this soft attitude were perhaps wrong. For the arrogant bureaucrats the Minister has run his writ quite strong and large that his other colleagues have lesson to learn and the officers who least bother to care for the political establishment have chance to change their attitude.
Haji Nisar was recently irked over the absence of some top divisional level officers, some of the rank of IAS, in a meeting he chaired. Refusing to take the things as they come, the Minister instead of giving the bureaucrats a free hand recommended stern action against them. The action he recomme... | |
| | | | Awakening: Jammu legislators lobby for separate directorates | | | |
Jammu, June 22: With some amount of consciousness in the region for efficiency in administrative works, a demand for separate directorates of different key departments is fast gaining currency.
Almost all legislators of Jammu district who attended the meeting of District Development Board here the previous day vociferously raised demand for creation of separate directorates for Industries and Commerce, Information and Floriculture for Jammu province.
It may be mentioned here that most of the important departments have a single directorate which moves with the Darbar and thus people in each region have to suffer for six months when the government is in the other capital
In recent ye... | |
| | | | CS proceeding on leave | | | |
Jammu, June 22: Chief Secretary C Phunsog is likely to proceed on a short leave in newt few days, authoritative sources told Early Times.
Financial Commissioner, Home, BR Kundal will perform the duties of Chief Secretary till Phunsog returns, sources said.
Though Kundal is not the senior most IAS officer in Jammu and Kashmir after C Phunsog, but his name is also taking rounds for the next Chief Secretary after the retirement of the incumbent.
Of the two senior most officer, Amit Kushari had taken voluntary retirement earlier this year, BR Singh is on an indefinite leave and Ajit Kumar has got his service records wronged after his arrest in the infamous jute mat scam.
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| | | | Home Minister Patil visiting Srinagar next week | | | |
Jammu, June 22: As the insurgency picks up with summer heat and more ultras step in from the Line of Control, the security agencies have a raised an alarm bell.
Concerned over the latest security development in Jammu and Kashmir and getting the first had information from the Home Secretary Madhukar Gupta who was in the summer capital last wee, Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil is visiting Srinagar the following week, reports said.
Patil, who will be accompanied by some of the senior officials of the ministry, would meet officials from the Army, Police, Intelligence agencies and local heads of para-military forces to chalk out the future strategy for countering the influx from acro... | |
| | | | PDP-Congress may burry differences | | Sonia wants them to contest next elections jointly | | |
By MUNISH GUPTA
Jammu, June 22: Amidst the threats and fears of fall of the coalition government due to growing animosity between the coalition partners –the Peoples Democratic Party and the Congress, there are signals of some patchwork between the two and a cold directive from the “supreme command” for going ahead together in the next assembly elections.
The Peoples Democratic Party and the Congress have never been at ease with each other ever since Mufti Mohammad Sayeed handed over the chair of Chief Minister to his Congress successor Ghulam Nabi Azad in November 2005 under the coalition power sharing pact arrived at between the two in 2002 at behest of Congress president Sonia ... | |
| | | | Pak may be building new nuke reactor: US watchdog | | | |
WASHINGTON June 22
Pakistan appears to be building a new nuclear reactor to produce weapons-grade plutonium at Khushab in Punjab province, an American watchdog group has said citing satellite imagery.
Satellite images taken on June 3 indicate that Pakistan appears to be building a third plutonium production reactor at the Khushab nuclear site, 160 kms southwest of Islamabad, even as the second heavy water reactor, which it began building between 2000 and 2002, is still under construction, Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) said.
"The third reactor appears to be a replica of the second heavy water reactor and is located a few hundred metres to the north, though co... | |
| | | | Martyr's son held for loot | | | |
AHMEDABAD June 22:
The military police of the cantonment area of Ahmedabad had little to celebrate after nabbing a 16-year-old boy who had committed over five thefts in the area in the last five months.
The teenager, a class X student, is the son of a Kargil martyr, who died during Operation Vijay at the Tiger hills. "Even though he is the son of a martyr, we had to arrest him and hand him over to the local Shahibaug police station officials," said Naik M A Hasim of 11 infantry, PRO unit.
Police sub-inspector of Shahibaug police station M F Chowdhry said the teenager, staying near the cantonment area, had been on the prowl for the last five months. "He always targeted locked quarter... | |
| | | | Miss Anara film not showcased in Jammu under threat from Shiv Sainiks | | | |
Jammu, June 22
Much awaited Friday on 22June witnessed the expected chaos in the walled city on the formal screening of the ‘Miss Anara’ based on the real life sketch of former Miss Jammu, Anara Gupta. The movie could not be screened in hometown while it was released today across the nation. Police had to resort to mild lathi charge in Pacca Danga area as activists of Hindu Shiv Sena.
The city witnessed token protests organized by two factions of Shiv Sena, one led by Anan Sharma and the other headed by Krishan Manhas in old city area. The day witnessed the activists of Shiv Sena raising slogans against the cinema screening and also disturbed traffic at various places in the walled ... | |
| | | | Hizbul Mujahideen plans infiltration into J&K | | Kalashnikovs, grenades, rocket launchers in pipeline | | |
B L KAK
NEW DELHI, JUNE 22: Fresh intelligence reports, now being examined by the government of India, while making a pointed referfence to the plans of the Pakistan-based Hizbul Mujahideen to send additional batches of infiltrators into Jammu and Kashmir, say that large quantities of Kalashnikovs and grenades, besides an uncspecified number of rocket launchers, can be expected in the troubled Indian State in the coming weeks.
Hizbul Mujahideen supremo, Salahuddin, said to be shuttling between Rawalpindi and Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) for the past two months, has been reported to be planning to send over 200 Hizbul operatives into Kashmir in the coming weeks. Intelligen... | |
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